When you are winning gambling seems very easy. You place a bet and receive your winnings. The thrill is a joyous electric shock of joy and applause. And winnings.If you lose, well, at first you know your luck will turn. It must, you’re a winner. But if your luck fails, and keeps failing, misery endures and then envelops your life. Everything is centered on that next roll of the dice, the turn of the card …. Nothing else matters. You are addicted. 01 - Short Stories About Gambling - An Introduction02 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin03 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence04 - After the Race by James Joyce05 - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County by Mark Twain06 - A Bread and Butter Miss by Saki07 - Brown of Calaveras by Bret Harte08 - A Guardian of Morality by Anthony Hope09 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov10 - The Bet by Barry Pain11 - Sir Julian Garve by Ella D'Arcy12 - Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte13 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins